Episode 75: The Shock of the New pt. 1: The Mechanical Paradise

January 25th, 2022  |  51 mins 10 secs

art, art history, cezanne, cubism, duchamp, modern art, modernism, painting, picasso, screens, ww1, wwi

Emmet and John begin their new series on Robert Hughes's documentary series The Shock of the New. This first installment takes on early modernism. The lads contemplate the impact of WWI, think on what really separates the modern experience from previous eras, and what makes our era different from early modernism.